rubbish, nonsense writing, and real literature
Posted on December 19, 2011
Filed under BVKS Sanga
Vyasadeva was not an ordinary fiction writer. Anyone can write any nonsense.
No. Formerly, no book will be accepted unless it is written by liberated
soul. That was the system. No other man will dare to write any book, neither
his book will be accepted in society. Only Vedic literature and literature
produced out of Vedic knowledge. That is book. Otherwise, what are these
books? These fictions and novels are not books; they are rubbish. Actually
they are rubbish. Don’t you see? The newspaper, it is published after
spending so much money. You know. Every day, the newspaper proprietors, they
are paying to the news collectors, to the photographers, to the staff, to
the establishment huge amount of money and producing newspaper, say, fifty
pages or twenty-five pages, and throwing in the street. Nobody cares for it.
Because everyone knows what is the value of this news. Nobody is taking
care. “Oh, here is a newspaper behind which there is so much expenditure.”
“Oh, here is one. Let me take it.” Everyone kicks it. You see? You see
practically. Huge bundles of newspapers, nobody cares for it. That means
actually this literature has no value. No value. Simply they are wasting
their time, producing such nonsense literature. Even if it has got any
value, the newspaper boys throws early in the morning. At ten o’clock it has
no more value. That’s all. Finished all value. Whatever value was there,
that finished by ten o’clock.
So Srimad-Bhagavatam, Bhagavad-gita is not a literature like that. Can you
give any evidence, any book written five thousand years ago is still being
read with still greater veneration, with greater respect, with greater
attention. Is there any book in the world? Find out. Not a single book
you’ll find. You cannot trace out of any book written, say, thousand years
or two thousand years ago. But here is a book which was spoken five thousand
years ago; still, all over the world… It is not that Bhagavad-gita is
supposed to be Hindu literature, Vedic literature, it is read simply by the
Hindus… It is all over the world. Still, you’ll find in Germany
Bhagavad-gita is being read. In England you’ll find. Even in Muhammadan
countries you’ll find, and what to speak of your country. There are so many
editions of Bhagavad-gita. See the importance of real literature.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Bhagavad-gita 2.26 — Los Angeles, December 6, 1968
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